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Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.
A great many cosmic puzzles still remain unsolved. By embracing a broad and varied approach, particle physics heads toward a bright future.
The secret sauce of humor is incongruity. AI knows this as well as we do.
Ways to move forward when you’re wrong and I’m right.
The difference between predictions and observations of the magnetic properties of muons suggests a mystery for the Standard Model.
The game of Plinko perfectly illustrates chaos theory. Even with indistinguishable initial conditions, the outcome is always uncertain.
That scary swirling void from which nothing can escape is our perfect universal translation tool.
Business acumen training can help everyone from individual contributors to directors learn how to seize opportunities for growth.
Unmasking a “convenient untruth” in U.S. politics.
Arieh Smith, a New York City-based polyglot who runs the YouTube channel Xiaomanyc, talks language-learning with Big Think.
Bertrand Russell shows us how to recognize emotional arguments smuggled into presumed statements of fact.
Nature may not allow us full access to the weirdness of quantum mechanics.
A brief look at the six-decade challenge to psychiatry.
Even if a leading theory of consciousness is wrong, it can still be useful to science.
To make a ton of information stick in your mind, you have to make it chunky.
There are so many problems, all across planet Earth, that harm and threaten humanity. Why invest in researching the Universe?
As AI evolves — and more robotic warfare systems are deployed — the nature of conflict could change beyond recognition.
The way to understand the earliest moments of creation is to recreate those conditions and study them. Why would we stop now?
Leadership training can have huge dividends, when it’s done right. Here are seven best practices for building a leadership development program that works.
Architect and brand innovator Kevin Ervin Kelley sounds the alarm for workplace culture — and argues for a “big bang” collision of forms and shapes.
Perhaps we should be searching for “other Mercurys” rather than “other Earths.”
Four key components to guide the creation of emotional intelligence training for leaders.
We cannot deduce laws about a higher level of complexity by starting with a lower level of complexity. Here, reductionism meets a brick wall.
Meaningful pictures are assembled from meaningless noise.
Can quantum computers do things that standard, classical computers can’t? No. But if they can calculate faster, that’s quantum supremacy.
A relatively new interpretation of quantum mechanics asks us to reimagine the process of science itself.
A Fermilab study confirms decades-old measurements regarding the size and structure of protons.
It’s far less likely to wander into bizarre lies, emotional rants, and manipulative tangents.
When leaders connect enterprise ambition with the driving spirit of activism, everyone wins.